The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
Advocacy & Reforms
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Owning is the New Sharing
People are tired of seeing their communities treated like commodities, and they're looking for ways to build platforms of their own.
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The Sanders Plan: A New Economic Agenda for America
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders released an the document last week, detailing 12 reforms to help make the economy work for working people once more.
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Policing Justice Requires Economic Justice, Part II
From new ways of working, producing, and sharing, new ways of protecting ourselves will grow.
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Inside Big Oil’s "Conspiracy" to Kill West Coast Climate Laws
The fossil fuel industry is backing a network of astroturf organizations trying to derail climate protections.
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Radical New Economic System Will Emerge from Collapse of Capitalism
We are seeing the final triumph of capitalism followed by its exit from the world stage amid the ascendence of the collaborative commons.
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You Are Not A Loan: It's Time To Reduce Student Debt To Zero
The entire structure of financing higher education in the U.S. is broken – and superficial reform means nothing until we make tuition free.
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The Postal Public Option: How the USPS Can Rescue Desperate Payday Borrowers
Predatory financial services like Cash America are siphoning around $100 billion per year from the pockets of people who need the money most – giving urgency to the call for low-cost postal financial services.
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Ebb and Flow of Privatized Water – From Buenos Aires to Atlanta, From Mozambique to France
Private water companies’ duty to their customers nearly always gets superseded by their duty to reward shareholders.
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The Fight for $15.37 an Hour: How a Coalition Pushed for Hotel Workers' Minimum Wage
Forces both inside and outside the traditional labor movement united to campaign for a higher minimum wage for hotel workers in Los Angeles.
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Surprise, Goldman Sachs: Public Bank of North Dakota Just Outperformed Wall Street
New figures reveal that public banks are safer for depositors, allow public infrastructure costs to be cut in half – and provide a non-criminal alternative to a Wall Street cartel caught in a laundry list of frauds.
